hollywood draw

As time slowly approaches November, Wayne is also constantly communicating with Los Angeles through Nina, and always paying attention to the progress of several projects he has invested in.

As the end of 1998 gradually approaches, the most eye-catching information now is the seemingly endless upward momentum of Nasdaq. Behind North American stock investors are in a carnival, many people have also seen the crisis. The unpredictable state of the stock market is already completely unrelated to Wayne.

Accountant and investment consultant Colin Howard immediately cleared the Internet company stocks in his hand after receiving a call from Nina.

Whether it is Google, Microsoft or Oracle, these stocks are now absolutely popular in the market, and this matter is going on very quickly. The only thing that makes people feel helpless is that fruits are also popular, and Colin Howard can only slowly absorb the loose stocks on the market.

No one can deny that since the Joe Gang was swept out by the fruit company, and then Hollywood fought a turnaround with Pixar, it retakes fruit again, bringing confidence to countless investors.

The crew of "The Lord of the Rings" far away in New Zealand, the preliminary preparations have entered the final stage, and a large number of actors have been training for a while. According to Peter Jackson's plan, the movie will be officially launched after the Oscars.

The "Quick Chase" project has started filming, and "King Kong" directed by Roland Emmerich also held a launch conference recently. Not to mention the attention brought by Naomi Watts, just the controversy brought by Roland Emmerich has caused the film to fall into media discussion before it was produced.

There is no way, from preparation to starting the press conference, all the information obtained by the media showed that this is still a monster movie with huge monsters as the absolute protagonist of the screen. This is easily reminiscent of the frustrating "Godzilla".

In fact, monster movies are like zombie movies and mill horror movies. They have always had many fans in North America and a large number of monster movie fans.

It can be seen from the fact that Universal Pictures likes to make this type of movie and is constantly making this type of movie, that movie fans are not very popular with monster movies.

But so far, the only truly popular film is undoubtedly Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park". Except for this movie series, all other follow-up productions have basically failed, and the market results have not been ideal at all.

Just like this year's "Godzilla", this huge investment monster made Roland Emmerich fall into a big frustration and almost completely consumed his previous credibility in the film company.

Hollywood has always been an extremely realistic place. When you can shoot a popular movie and bring huge benefits to the film company, then there is no doubt that you are the darling of the entire film company.

But when you have an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars and have not even made a waste of money in the market, they will abandon you without hesitation. And they will not give you a chance to turn things around easily, because no company will believe that your next film will be absolutely successful.

Hollywood directors with ups and downs in their careers are definitely not considered Western in the circle. However, some people completely disappear from this circle after failure. After failure, some people can patiently look for opportunities and return to the mainstream market again.

However, there is also a director type that has caused all Hollywood film companies to reach an extremely troublesome situation, and the representative figure is Ridley Scott.

This guy is like a scratch-off music. If you get it, it will basically be a good movie that makes a lot of money. If you don’t get it, you can’t even cheat the movie company. But this guy has a good status in the circle.

For Roland Emmerich today, "King Kong" is his hope for a turnaround. Although the salary on signing the director's contract is completely in line with his value, he cannot find a better choice except for "King Kong", a project with a large investment scale.

Even though November has already begun, the sunshine in Los Angeles is still hot, but the passionate sunshine is finally blocked from the studio. In the largest studio in Warner Studios, the crew of "King Kong" has been conducting special shootings here since the start of the filming.

"I didn't expect that the movie could still be filmed like this..."

Nicole Kidman started to walk into the studio and found that everyone's attention was all focused on the male actors performing. She had made an appointment to visit Naomi Watts' class. When she saw the male actors performing, she muttered in surprise.

The staff leading the way heard her sigh, turned around, stretched out a finger, and stood up in front of her mouth, signaling her to keep quiet.

When Nicole Kidman was led by staff to Naomi Watts, he found that this "best friend" from Australia was also watching the crowd with special performances.

"Excellent job, Andy, let's take a 15-minute break!"

It was not until the yell of the film director Peter Jackson that the quiet atmosphere broke in the studio, and the staff began to move at the same time to check the equipment on the male actor.

"Hi, Nicole."

Naomi Watts waited until the end of this filming and turned around and found the "best friend" standing beside him. "Sorry, I was so fascinated just now. When did you arrive?"

"Hi, Nami. I've just arrived not long ago."

While greeting, Nicole Kidman took the chair handed over by an assistant and sat next to the Australian fellow. However, her eyes still floated to the actor just now, with curiosity in her eyes. "Nami, is this the rumored motion capture?"

Nodding, Naomi Watts said: "That's right, it's actually the first time I've been in close contact with this."

Since the success of "The Flash" this year, the shooting technology used in the film has begun to enter the attention of people in the circle.

For many people in Hollywood, they have only heard of this shooting technology and have not seen how it was shot, so Nicole Kidman is particularly curious.

"You know, since Wayne used this technology a lot, it was like opening a door for many directors." Seeing that the other party was very curious, Naomi Watts shrugged and explained:

"Roland Emmerich also chose motion capture. After all, with the cooperation between Warner Bros. and Industrial Light and Magic, the entire special effects team of Industrial Light and Magic can join the crew. Pay attention to the patches on Andy, those are actually sensors that can capture all his movements into the computer."

Nicole Kidman smiled and shook his head. "Don't tell me that the actor is playing the gorilla."

"Yes, you guessed it right! Andy plays the gorilla." Naomi Watts leaned against the chair and laughed as he said. "Can you imagine? In the video, I was actually being held in my hand by such a virtual gorilla many times."

"Believe me, Nami." Nicole Kidman put his handbag aside, looking up and down at his "best friend". "It's always better, I'm caught in my hands by a real gorilla."

They are all insiders. After listening to some explanations, Mrs. Cruise already thought of the benefits of shooting like this. At least it saves time-consuming special effects modeling, allowing this exaggerated gorilla to be synthesized directly on the computer.

The studio was crowded with dozens of staff members walking back and forth, all working around the director's team. It can be seen that director Roland Emmerich was constantly communicating with the members of the Industrial Light and Magic team, and everyone was constantly working hard for the filming of the film like a tight clockwork.

Looking at everything in front of him, Nicole Kidman soon discovered an abnormality, that was, in this small rest area of ​​his "best friend", no one came to disturb him. It can be said that in the busy studio, Naomi Watts was so quiet that it was surprisingly quiet beside him.

There is no doubt that no one knows the relationship between her and Wayne. Even ordinary people in North America know that she gave birth to a little princess for the Greenberg family. So, she joined the project crew invested in Wayne and was naturally one of the highest-ranking ones.

Even in the eyes of many staff members, one of them can be removed because once some conflict arises, everyone believes that the producers of Warner Bros. will stand by this woman and shout without hesitation.

This is the influence brought by Wayne Greenberg. Nicole Kidman is very familiar with this feeling. The same scene happened to herself in the past few years. After all, although the title of Mrs. Cruise is not good, it is definitely easy to use.

"I heard that this project was specially made by Wayne for you?"

Turning his eyes back to the face of the woman in front of him, Nicole Kidman smiled and joked: "Tsk, tsk, Nami, this is a big project with an investment of more than 160 million US dollars. It seems that Wayne is really concerned about you."

It seems to be a joke between friends, but Naomi Watts is not a fool. She has grown a lot in the circle over the years. Especially since she has keenly heard some sour meanings from the other party’s jokes.

She suddenly remembered a sentence Wayne said by chance, "My friends are always afraid that you will live a bad life, but they are always afraid that you will live a good life."

So far, she remembers that when she first arrived in Hollywood, the other party did provide some small help to herself, but at that time, the other party was the high-ranking Mrs. Cruise, the absolute core of all Australian gangs.

"Nicole, you should know what kind of nature are men like them."

Shaking his head helplessly, Naomi Watts had no idea of ​​showing off, but instead said in a weak tone: "Do you think I'm worth 160 million US dollars? Even I know that no woman is worth so much money. To put it bluntly, Wayne invested because of this project, which can make money for him.

As for the rumors outside, why do I write scripts for me, invest for me, and ask Warner Brothers for a professional team, just listen, don't take it seriously."

There is a sentence that instantly touched Nicole Kidman's empathy, that is, what is the nature of a man like "they".

There is no doubt that "they" refers to the successful tycoons in the circle. Wayne Greenberg belongs to this category, and Tom Cruise also belongs to this category. Even Will Smith, who was picked up by Wayne, also joined this circle.

Thinking about the constant conflicts with Tomco in recent months, Nicole Kidman felt a malice deeply.

And as far as she knows, there is also this situation between Will Smith and his wife. They basically play with each other and no one will disturb each other.

Nicole Kidman shook his head with self-deprecating silence, saying: "Ha, Nami, are there really no passionate men in Hollywood?"

"Yes, and there must be quite a few." Naomi Watts put away his smile and said seriously: "But those men are likely to be losers. We all know how many temptations a successful man has to face in this circle."

"This society is too unfair to us women!" Nicole Kidman said one after another: "To be honest, Nami, I can't figure out how to maintain a harmonious relationship between the two."

Thinking of the frequent news that has been leaked in entertainment newspapers over the past period of time, Naomi Watts understood the other party’s meaning. The conflict between Tomco and Mrs. Cruise has almost been hyped up by gossip tabloids.

Looking at his beautiful and dazzling best friend in front of him, Naomi Watts whispered: "As long as you can't see it, just pretend that it didn't happen."

“What?”

"This is just a little advice I have given you, Nicole. As long as it has not been seen by you with your own eyes, it is considered as never before. This is a helpless choice to maintain a harmonious relationship. Of course, the premise is that you still want to maintain harmony between the two."

Nodding silently, Nicole Kidman was not continuing this topic. Of course she knew that doing so could maintain this marriage, and that marriages between most celebrities in the circle were maintained in this way.

But she really couldn't do it. Nicole Kidman knew that she could have better development and greater ambitions. Perhaps she had already brought enough of Mrs. Cruise's title now. Every time she heard someone call her like this, she would feel disgust from the bottom of her heart.

Shaking his head vigorously, Nicole Kidman temporarily threw away the messy thoughts, looking at the only leisurely woman in the busy studio, and asked, "Forget it, I won't talk about these things anymore. I think you are quite relaxed in the crew. Has Little Fendi been picked up?"

"No, still at Greenberg Farm in Ventura."

When Naomi Watts mentioned his daughter, a smile naturally appeared on his face. "That little guy likes to stay on the farm, where any animal can be played all day. And Wayne also hopes that Fendy can stay on the farm for a few more years to avoid being exposed to the spotlight too early.

You know, compared to my new parents, Wayne and Anna, obviously, Ruben and Anna, know better how to accompany their children to grow up. Unlike our unqualified parents, their grandparents are more loved by their children."

Sometimes Naomi Watts was also confused that according to the traditional North American idea, there was absolutely no obligation to help children take care of their children. But as a Jewish family, neither Ruben Greenberg nor Anna Greenberg thought that Little Fendi had disturbed the rhythm of their lives, but instead loved this little granddaughter very much.

Speaking of the little guy, Nicole Kidman sighed sincerely: "No, believe me Nami. When Fendi grows up a little longer, he will know how lucky he is to be born in such a family."

In fact, both women know that it is not how lucky they are to be born in such a family, but how lucky they are to be to have such a father when they are born.

As the only descendant of the Greenberg family, it can be said that since the ignorance of time, it has solved 99% of the problems that have troubled humans for life, money. With Wayne's ability and speed of making money, even if this child grows up, he will probably have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

"Hey, you're not reading the script of "King Kong"?"

When the two women talked about children, the atmosphere became much warmer. When they were chatting warmly, Nicole Kidman suddenly realized that the script that had been spread out on the other side's table was not the filming of "King Kong".

"Hmm, you said this? This is a novel published by Wayne's mother Anna Greenberg, early years."

Seeing "best friend" looking at the spread novel, Naomi Watts didn't think too much, so he picked it up and put it in the other party's hand. "This time he went back to the farm to accompany Fendy, which Wayne's mother gave it to me."

Speaking of this, she seemed to think of something interesting and said with a smile: "When Anna gave it to me, she swore to tell me that Wayne would use this cold and cruel novel to get me the actress's best actress Little Golden Man. Hahahaha..."

"God, did she tell you which year the Oscar winner was booked? Hahaha."

Hearing Naomi Watts' words, Nicole Kidman naturally laughed and laughed. The two women laughed for a while. As senior practitioners in the circle, they knew better than anyone else that the Oscar winner has always been the most competitive award, no doubt about it.

Moreover, the Oscar winner is also the most uncertain award. Especially for actors like them who are too sweet and beautiful, they are born to be discriminated against by the Oscars, which makes it even more difficult to win the award.

"Three Billboards..."

After glanced at the name of the short story, Nicole Kidman kept secretly in his heart without saying a word, and then put the novel on the table, showing that he had no interest in watching it.

“Where will we go for a walk in the afternoon?”

Seeing that lunch time was coming soon, Naomi Watts had no intention of staying. She just explained to the crew's assistant, and took Nicole Kidman to the tram and walked out of the studio.

"I heard that Chanel has a new autumn product..."

"Okay, then go to Chanel first."